»In his study of causation J. L. Mackie once referred back to David Hume, who listed causation among one of the principles that are to us the cement of the universe and thus of vast consequence in the science of human nature. Borrowing mathematical rigour from statistics, one of the most prominent areas of causal modelling today sounds out the interaction of probabilistic and deterministic approaches and is centred around Bayesian Networks, through which causal notions can be identified concretely and utilised for various disciplines eventually.«